Alan Boswell is the director of the Horn of Africa Project at the International Crisis Group and, since 2019, hosts Crisis Group’s fortnightly The Horn podcast. He joined Crisis Group as the senior analyst for South Sudan in 2018. Alan has worked for over a decade in East Africa. Following the outbreak of civil war in South Sudan, Alan served as a formal adviser and researcher for a number of organisations, including the United Nations, USAID, U.S. Institute of Peace, European Institute of Peace, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Friedrich Egbert Stiftung and World Peace Foundation. Prior to joining Crisis Group, Alan regularly published conflict research through the Small Arms Survey and was an associate of the Conflict Research Programme at the London School of Economics.

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